Manuel Orbegozo
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CalMatters
California’s tough-on-crime law promised treatment. Here’s why people are falling through the cracks
California’s Prop. 36 gave certain people facing criminal charges an option to have their cases dropped if they complete drug treatment. Now, counties are on their own to figure out how to provide it.
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Ocean Rainforest plans to grow giant kelp to develop agricultural products that can be used in the strawberry- and avocado-rich region. Some environmental advocates worry whales could get tangled in the lines used to grow the kelp. -
San Diego County is home to independent bookstores offering new, used, rare and specialty books. -
A California labor leader behind a proposal to tax billionaires has been accused of harassing and intimidating several women who work for an affiliated union. -
At the peak of the latest heat wave in San Diego Navy officials at Naval Base Point Loma were going room-to-room in sweltering non-airconditioned barracks where sailors had been using portable air conditioners. -
The Woodward Center touts as the nation's longest-running canine surf competition raises funds for the nonprofit organization, which has an adoption center, therapeutic programs and advocates for animal welfare. -
San Diego City Councilmembers Sean Elo-Rivera and Marni von Wilpert will be joined by transportation workers, labor leaders and community advocates at 1 p.m. Monday to address the expansion of autonomous vehicles — from such companies as Alphabet with Waymo, Amazon with Zoox and Tesla with Cybercabs. -
Emmett Stewart will graduate from college next year. But this week, he got the city’s top finance job until the public elects a new treasurer in the fall. -
Luna de la Fuente initially charged $1,400 to complete and submit immigration forms, according to the State Bar of California. -
Even a decade ago, the horror stories behind some of the 13 bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday seemed the stuff of fiction. No more. -
Migrant children are being held at detention facilities longer than the three-day target set by longstanding government policy despite fewer encounters with families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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